slowing the planets warming, tax reform to rebalance are out of whack political economy, investments in childcare, health care and paid leave, to empower millions of struggling people, economically, will remain, or at what level of ambition. manchin and sinema have imposed a level of extraction, and generality on this debate, that is made real argument over concrete trade-offs much harder. progressives insist the failure to deal with all of those challenges, poses more of a threat to our future, than higher spending. and high-end taxation do. but we cannot debate this because we don t really know which challenges manchin and sinema c s postpone-able, for the foreseeable future. and. which is why it was striking, to hear senator joe manchin, say this today. we ve been talking about, everybody s talking, they re still negotiations. i ve been very vocal, i ve been very transparent. i was talking about a price, of